El día Tuesday, June 04, 2019 a las 04:41:47PM +0100, Andrew Gierth escribió: > Matthias> I do load this now with COPY in mode TEXT and modify the data > Matthias> before with: > > Matthias> sed 's/|/\v/g' < table-from-Sybase | sed 's/\\\v/|/g' > table-for-copy > > What on earth is this supposed to achieve? It first translates any char '|' to vtab and then any '\vtab' (i.e. a backslash followed by a vtab) back to the char | The new DELIMITER for PG is then vtab and the | is just a char in the data (in the example above a pipe of two UNIX cmd). Do you do UNIX? matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@xxxxxxxxxxx, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-176-38902045 Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub May, 9: Спаси́бо освободители! Thank you very much, Russian liberators!